Agriculture‚ also called farming or husbandry‚ is the cultivation of animals‚ plants‚ fungi‚ and other life forms for food‚ fiber‚ biofuel‚drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.[1] Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization‚ whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back thousands
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means by which more food can be grown than before‚ on the same piece of land. Improved methods of agriculture have led to the production of about 360m tonnes of plant food products and about 88m tonnes of animal food products. OBJECTIVES After completing this lesson‚ you will be able to: • state reasons for human dependence on plants and animals for food; • define and differentiate between agriculture and horticulture; • list and explain the various steps for raising an improved crop; • differentiate
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is consumed by the farmers and their families. Where facilities like irrigation and electricity are available‚ farming has improved. Important cash crops like sugarcane‚ oilseeds‚ cotton and jute are grown. The subsistence agriculture has given way to commercial agriculture to some extent. Dry land farming is practised in areas where the rainfall is low and irrigation facilities are inadequate. Here‚ emphasis is laid on conservation of moisture‚ and on crops like jowar‚ bajra and pulses‚ which need
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Case Study Highlights Southwest Airlines case: 1993 (A) Behnam Tirandazi History In my opinion for operating management of a system like this three categories is important: geographic‚ economic and politic. Reason of Geographic category is locations and weather forecasting. The first thing I interested about that is location of Southwest’s corporate offices. It were located at Dallas’s Love Field. Love Field was located six miles from downtown Dallas. All Southwest flights out of Dallas originated
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HISTORY OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE Early history Barley and wheat cultivation—along with the domestication of cattle‚ primarily sheep and goat—was visible in Mehrgarh by 9000 BCE. Vedic period – Post Maha Janapadas period (1500 BCE – 200 CE) The Mauryan Empire (322–185 BCE) categorised soils and made meteorological observations for agricultural use. Early Common Era – High Middle Ages (200–1200 CE) Water storage systems were designed during this period. Kallanai‚ a dam built
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Transition to Agriculture: Human Improvement or Not? History 103 World Civilizations I Instructor: Paul Toro February 13‚ 2012 The transition that humans made from hunting and gathering to foraging was quite a transformation around 13‚000 years ago. Man had man a big change when deciding to domesticate animals and plants. Man had discovered that the wild animals that they once hunted could be tamed and could be domesticated livestock for reproduction. With plants‚ they found the ones that
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as seed 2. History and development of seed industry in India – pre-Independence and post independence development – First Five Year Plan (FYP) – Grow More Food Enquiry Committee – Second FYP – Coordinated Crop Improvement Schemes and Agricultural Production Team – Third FYP – National Seeds Corporation and High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) – Annual Plans (1966-69) – 3. History and development o seed industry in India – Fourth FYP – Tarai Development f Corporation (TDC) and Indian
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more stuff Agriculture: Many of the plant foods we take for granted came from the Columbian Exchange. The one everyone talks about is the potato and its effect on Ireland. Feed corn is another New World plant. If we look at the effect of the potato and corn on Europe and America (European culture in the New World) we see that these two starches made possible an explosion in the numbers of humans and domestic animals the culture could support. In his book "Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚" Jared Diamond
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1200 – 1300 per 40 Kg* | According to Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) the production target of rice for the current financial year of July 2012-June 2013 has been set to 6.9 million tones. (Source: Pakonomy.com) Sindh Chamber of Agriculture demands intervention to fix the support prices of rice at 1200 per maund. (Source: Dawn‚ Govt. asked to fix support prices; 8th September‚ 2012)*The support price is according to the suggestion by the farmers as the government hasn’t yet decided
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in Brunei Minister of Development YB Pehin Dato Hj Suyoi delivering his keynote address during the National Environment Conference 2012 held at The Grand Hall‚ The Empire Hotel & Country Club. Picture: BT/ Yusri Adanan YING CHIA AND LEO KASIM BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Thursday‚ June 21‚ 2012 DETERIORATION of our environment remains an issue for the nation‚ based on what is generated (waste) to the environment by consumers on a per capita basis. However‚ the Minister of Development stressed that there are
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